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  • From: Spidra Webster <spidra@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] starting apricots from seed
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:49:19 -0700

I assume they need to be stratified. However, the way I got my apricot seedling was that I started tossing my apricot and peach pits in a pile to use as "mulch" to keep weeds down in a sort of godforsaken dry part of my front yard. I figured it was so dry they wouldn't sprout but after a year or two I had a couple apricot and peach seedlings. The only disadvantage of my method is that I mixed apricot, peach, aprium and nectarine varieties so I can't be sure what it is other than "apricot-like" and "peach-like".

This was in Berkeley, CA. Berkeley doesn't get *that* many chill hours.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Webmail wynne <wynne@crcwnet.com> wrote:
can anyone offer some help trying to get apricot pits  to sprout   do
they need to be
stratified    thanks for any help
wynne @jerzyboyz farm   nc wa state   very strange summer indeed!


Megan Lynch

South Pasadena, CA USDA Zone 9 



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